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Iran to pay Denmark for embassy repairs
Dec 19, 2007, 15:47 GMT
Copenhagen - Iran is to compensate Denmark for repairs to the Danish embassy in Tehran which was damaged in the wake of protests sparked by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller said Wednesday.
The embassy was targeted by protesters in February 2006 after protests that impacted several countries. They erupted over a Danish newspaper's publication in September 2005 of controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Denmark was slated to get roughly 600,000 kroner (115,000 dollars), a sum that equalled about 60 per cent of its demands, Moller told Danish news agency Ritzau.
The funds would cover repairs of the building. Denmark had also asked for compensation for costs related to the evacuation of embassy staff. Lebanon has paid compensation over a similar attack.
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CharlesDec 19th, 2007 - 16:07:38
So if these people should have nuclear weapons, then who shouldn't - and why?
Let's game this out and see if we can come up with some reasonable solution (hypothetical).
In anticipation of those who will propose the 'US' as the one country that shouldn't have nuclear weapons, please explain why.
Thanks!
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